The famous article Choose Boring Technology lists two problems with using innovative technology: There are too many "unknown unknowns" in a new technology,...
The following article originally appeared on Q McCallum’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Generative AI agents and rogue
How a $1,000 AWS Bill Made Me Redesign My ECS Architecture | Jordan Hornblow
I deployed a standard ECS architecture for Lush Aural Treats and didn't watch the bill. NAT gateways and ALBs quietly ate $1,000. Here's how I redesigned the whole thing to cost almost nothing.
Raft is a consensus algorithm that allows a group of servers to agree on the order of a sequence of commands.
The objective of this article is not to re-explain RAFT, as this work has already been done in several other places, and the RAFT paper gives enough details to implement it. Instead, my focus will be on two problems that I faced when I voluntarily studied the open distributed systems course from MIT (course code 6584, I didn’t enroll in the course officially, and I wasn’t a student of MIT).
Decoupling Deployment Boundaries from Memory Boundaries in Function Composition
I introduce Memory-Continuous Architecture (MCA), a runtime model that decouples deployment boundaries from memory boundaries in function composition. KubeFn implements MCA across JVM, Python, and Node.js runtimes, demonstrating 4-100x latency reduction in full HTTP benchmarks.
The database market is harsh, particularly for newcomers. It’s very hard to launch a new product and differentiate yourself from the incumbents. Even …
How Container Images Actually Work: Layers, Configs, Manifests, Indexes, and More | iximiuz Labs
A practical deep dive into container image internals that will help you build a clear mental model of how images are composed, identified, stored, and distributed across registries.
Creating web standards for AI models means wrestling with questions that didn't exist two years ago. Here's what I've learned building the prompt API and its siblings.
How reactive streams could be rewritten into plain Java API
Inspired by comments under my recent post where I shared my painful experience from reactive code, I'd like to show how simple it is to write streaming code with plain Java API, avoiding reactive streams API altogether. Handling streams of events is the main concern when people discuss whether react
One of my favorite YouTube channels is Reject Convenience. The core premise of the channel is; to engage with the modern technological landscape, consumers need to contend with the tradeoff between convenience and privacy. To be a consumer of any tech product, be it for navigation, entertainment, productivity, or even health, is to cede a treasure trove of data about your lifestyle, habits, and personal thoughts to the Charybdis that is Silicon Valley. The channel focuses on educating consumers about how their privacy is at risk online, available alternatives, and evaluating privacy tools, such as VPNs.
How do you measure product-market fit for a developer tool? A PMF scoring model from Evil Martians—a product development consultancy for developer tools startups—built on data from 37 devtools companies across AI, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Five metrics, real benchmarks, and a dual score that tells you whether to invest in product or go-to-market.
Wire your OpenAPI contract into a Node.js Fastify backend with auto-generated routes, typed handlers, and request validation—no manual route definitions, no type drift, no integration surprises.
We present the 5500FP, a 24-trit balanced ternary RISC processor implemented on FPGA, with a 120-instruction ISA, native atomic synchronization primitives, and an open hardware development board. The design demonstrates the practical feasibility of balanced ternary computing on modern reconfigurable hardware, providing a concrete platform for research into non-binary architectures without the barrier of custom silicon development.
I’ve said in the past that AI will enable new kinds of applications—but I’ve never had the imagination to guess what those new applications would be. I don’t
How Kernel Anti-Cheats Work: A Deep Dive into Modern Game Protection
Modern kernel anti-cheat systems are, without exaggeration, among the most sophisticated pieces of software running on consumer Windows machines. They operate at the highest privilege level available to software, they intercept kernel callbacks that were designed for legitimate security products, they scan memory structures that most programmers never touch in their entire careers, and they do all of this transparently while a game is running. If you have ever wondered how BattlEye actually catches a cheat, or why Vanguard insists on loading before Windows boots, or what it means for a PCIe DMA device to bypass every single one of these protections, this post is for you.